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October 6, 2008
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Different options with Scoring

  • October 6, 2008
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I was wondering myself about the following issue:

On some courses we have simulations of an application in which users must do some actions in order to proceed. In general, the actions are clickboxes which can be tried twice. If they do not get it right in two times, the test automatically continues and no points are awarded.

This works just fine if only one path is correct, but as soon as you can reach the desired goal on multiple ways it goes wrong. For example:
A search-screen in which you must fill in 5 fields in order to search a certain document. 9 out of 10 of those screens can be filled in completely random (title first , database second ... or database first and then title). But off course, if you want users to score for this, in order to get to the 100% they need to complete alle actions. This is something I don't want, but you can't seem to score different for every path you declare.

Has anyone got a solution for this? So that I'm able to set 3 or 4 possible path's and no matter what path the user takes, if he does that correct he will have a score of 100%?

All help will be appreciated.
Please also reply if my post is unclear and I need to explain more!

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    Participating Frequently
    October 6, 2008
    Sorry, but as you deduced, you cannot use branching in tests.

    A test is expected to be a linear progression of slides, where all scored slides have answers. If the user never sees some questions, they cannot get 100%.

    You might want to submit a feature request to specify that only answered questions be evaluated when determining quiz passing (or whatever terminology best fits what you'd like to see).

    You can so so here:

    Link to Adobe Captivate Feature Request Form